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Written by Steve Patterson. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to add type along a path in Photoshop!

I'll be using Photoshop CS6 here but this tutorial is also fully compatible with Photoshop CC. If you're using Photoshop CS5 or earlier, you'll want to check out the of this tutorial. To add type to a path, we first need a path, and Photoshop gives us several ways to draw one. We can use a basic shape tool like the Rectangle Tool or the Ellipse Tool, we can create a path from custom shapes, and we can draw a freeform path using the Pen Tool.

How you draw your path makes no difference as far as how we go about adding text to it because a path is a path no matter how it was created, and the steps for adding type to a path are always the same. Let's see how it works! Here's the image I'll be using for this tutorial which was downloaded from. I'm going to use a path to add some text around the golf ball. The original image. Let's get started!

How To Add Type On A Path In Photoshop Step 1: Select The Ellipse Tool As I mentioned, the steps for adding type along a path are the same no matter which tool you used to create the path. So for this tutorial, we'll keep things simple. To draw a path around the golf ball, I'll use the Ellipse Tool, one of Photoshop's basic shape tools.

You can learn more about drawing shapes in our tutorial. By default, the Ellipse Tool is nested behind the Rectangle Tool in the Tools panel. To select it, I'll right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) on the Rectangle Tool, then I'll choose the Ellipse Tool from the fly-out menu. Selecting the Ellipse Tool in the Tools panel.

Step 2: Change The Tool Mode To 'Path' With the Ellipse Tool selected, the Options Bar along the top of the screen changes to show us various options for working with the tool. Near the far left of the Options Bar is the Tool Mode option. By default, it's set to Shape. Photoshop actually gives us three different types of shapes that we can draw— vector shapes, paths, and pixel-based shapes. We want to draw a path, so I'll change the Tool Mode option from Shape to Path. Changing the mode for the Ellipse Tool to Path. Learn more: Step 3: Draw Your Path To draw the path, I'll click and hold my mouse button down in the center of the golf ball.

Then, I'll press and hold Shift+Alt (Win) / Shift+Option (Mac) on my keyboard and begin dragging outward from the center. Holding the Shift key down as I drag with the Ellipse Tool forces the shape of the path into a perfect circle, while the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key lets me draw the path outward from the spot where I clicked.

I'll continue dragging outward from the center until the path is large enough to surround the ball. If you need to reposition a path as you're drawing it, press and hold the spacebar on your keyboard, drag with your mouse to move the path into position, and then release your spacebar and continue drawing. When I'm happy with how the path looks, I'll release my Shift key and the Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) key, then I'll release my mouse button (it's important to release the keys first, then the mouse button, or you'll get unexpected results). Here, we see the path appearing as a thin outline around the ball. Dragging across the path flips and reverses the text. Depending on the effect you're going for, flipping and reversing the text like this may be what you wanted to do (it's actually a feature, not a glitch). But if you didn't do it on purpose, simply drag back across the path with the Path Selection Tool.

Your text will flip back over to the original side, and it will revert back to its original direction. Hiding The Path When you're done positioning your text and you're happy with the results, hide the path in the document by selecting any layer other than your Type layer in the Layers panel. In my case, my document only has two layers—the Type layer and the Background layer that holds my image—so I'll click on the Background layer to select it. The final result. Keep in mind that even though we've added the type to a path, Photoshop has not done anything fancy with the text itself. It's still just text, which means you can go back at any time and edit it, or completely change it if you need to. You can choose a different font, change its size or color, adjust the leading, kerning or tracking, the baseline shift, and anything else you can do with regular type!